The entry-level law job market isn’t going to rebound anytime soon, and larger law firms’ newly stingy hiring practices are largely to blame.

That’s the gist of a draft paper by University of North Carolina law professor Bernard Burk. He analyzed lawyer-hiring trends over the past 30 years in an attempt to put the current employment picture into context and help gauge whether the law job market is likely to recover in the near future.

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